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Old April 23rd, 2005, 04:42 AM   #3 (permalink)
pilot
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I have my Classifieds set up with some categories that are private, so that only Admininstrators, registered and subscribed people can see them.

www.yourdomain/classifieds/showcat.php?cat=all in the command line will show these categories publicly, which is a surprise to me. This happens with http://www.yourdomain/classifieds/sh...php?cat=last14 variable too.

If I can see these private categories then so does google, and sure enough these categories have been listed by google. So it seems that I had thought that the permissions in admin to make categories private . . doesn't.

What does happen is that you click on the category to read further details, and you are then asked to log in, but the category advert and description has already been seen, which is something you cannot do from within classifieds, only by pasting the above command line into the browser can you go one stage further.

It seems that there should be some permissions on the variable showcat.php?cat=all to stop these being publicly viewable?

Last edited by pilot; April 23rd, 2005 at 04:53 AM.
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